Senior Software Engineer (Platform) - Global Dining

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. From delivering differentiated products to providing world-class customer service, we operate with a strong risk mindset, ensuring we continue to uphold our brand promise of trust, security, and service.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

Joining Amex Tech means discovering and shaping your contribution to something big. Here, you can work alongside talented tech teams and build a unique career with the Powerful Backing of American Express. With a range of opportunities to work with the latest technologies, and a commitment to back the broader engineering community through open source, our mission is to power your success. Because Amex Tech is powered by our technology, our culture, and our colleagues.

The U.S. Consumer and Digital Technology (USCDT) Team brings together foundational strategic technology capabilities in digital experience engineering (Mobile and Web), AI/ML, marketing technology, enterprise communications, travel and lifestyle, and automation, grounded in our data technology model that prioritizes data governance. It employs a ground-breaking focus with development responsibilities for customer-facing capabilities that deepen and expand digital engagement, as well as core technical capabilities that cut across business lines and customer segments.

American Express Global Dining brings together world-class experiences through platforms like Resy, Tock and Rooam, creating seamless connections between diners and restaurants, and the broader Amex Membership ecosystem. Our mission is to define the future of hospitality and dining through technology, data, and design.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, testing, deployment, documentation, and operations of complete software systems.  
• Function as a leader on a software engineering team by contributing to software builds through consistent development practices (tools, common components, and documentation) 
• Debug software components and identify code defects for remediation 
• Adhere to security and regulatory standard methodologies 
• Adopt a site reliability mindset, defining and measuring our services’ golden signals

Leadership:

• Self-motivated individual who works well with little direction
• Influence team members with creative changes and improvements by challenging status quo and demonstrating risk taking 
• Be a productivity multiplier for your team by analyzing your workflow and contributing to enable the team to be more effective, productive, and demonstrating faster and stronger results. 

What we’re looking for: 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer science engineering, or related experience required 
• 5+ years of software development experience in a professional environment. 
• Hands-on expertise with application design, software development and deployment of critical full stack applications 
• Experience supporting HA products on public clouds using Kubernetes preferred.
• Familiarity with using Config as Code and Infrastructure as Code to manage configuration and cloud infrastructure preferred.
• Understand all parts of a modern web-based application stack from Frontend to Backend and Production. 
• Experience with distributed systems, algorithms, and databases. 

    Technologies Used: 

• Modern Java, TypeScript, Python 
• MySQL, MariaDB, Postgres, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka 
• Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Helm
• GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins, Grafana, Datadog

Salary Range: $123,000.00 to $215,250.00 annually + bonus + benefits

The above represents the expected salary range for this job requisition. Ultimately, in determining your pay, we’ll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• 6% Company Match on retirement savings plan
• Free financial coaching and financial well-being support
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• 20+ weeks paid parental leave for all parents, regardless of gender, offered for pregnancy, adoption or surrogacy
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities

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